Littler advokatfirma AS

Littler advokatfirma AS

Merete Furesund’s main areas of work are employment law, pension law, litigation and dispute resolution. Furesund has considerable experience in prosecuting cases before the ordinary courts, the Labour Court, the Supreme Court in Norway and the EFTA Court in Luxembourg. Furesund advises top management in all employment law issues. She has a particular interest in and extensive experience with issues regarding working hours, workforce reductions, reorganizations, business transfers and EU/EEA employment law. She also has extensive experience in collective labor law such as drafting and interpretation of collective agreements, implementation of collective bargaining and collective issues arising from corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions. Merete Furesund is a co-author at arbeidsrett.no, which is a digital commentary edition to the Working Environment Act. She is also a co-author of the Norwegian chapter in the Workforce Restructuring in Europe, Bloomsbury 2015.

Partner | lawyer at Littler advokatfirma AS, 2023 - present Partner | lawyer at Homble Olsby advokatfirma AS, May 2017 – present Senior Lawyer and Senior Associate at Kvale law firm, August 2011 - April 2017 Lawyer and Deputy Director at SAMFO, 2004 – 2011 Associate and Negotiation Consultant at SAMFO, 2000 – 2004 Legal Advisor, DNB Postbanken Real Estate, 1999 -2000

• Norwegian • English

• The Norwegian Bar Association • The Norwegian Society of Labour Law • The Pension Forum • The Board of Advisors; Executive Women’s Forum

• Law degree (cand. jur.), University of Oslo, 1999